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Prosecutors to seek death penalty in Half Moon Bay mass shooting case
Prosecutors in San Mateo County said they will seek the death penalty against the man suspected of killing seven people in ...
California Gave Accomplices To Killings A Second Chance. How A New Case Tested The Law
Hundreds of people convicted of murder in California didn't kill anyone. They were handed long sentences because they drove a getaway car or kicked down a door in a robbery that ended in murder -- and ...
A CHP officer shot him 12 times. But with no body cameras, truth is elusive
While there is CHP dashcam footage showing the moments before Sei-Jah Rivera was fatally shot in February, the shooting ...
DA to seek death penalty against Half Moon Bay mass shooting suspect
The decision marks the first time in more than 15 years that a San Mateo County district attorney will seek to execute an ...
Central Pa. murder suspect who left wallet at crime scene arrested in California
The man was arrested in Los Angeles and faces murder charges for the fatal central Pa. shooting. Another man charged in the ...
He didn’t pull the trigger. California Supreme Court sides with accomplice in felony murder case
A recent California law raises the standard for when prosecutors can charge accomplices to killings with felony murder. A ...
California teen ID'd as suspect in teacher's 1978 fatal stabbing
Harry Nickerson, who was 16 when, authorities say, he killed Diane Peterson in a San Jose high school, was identified after a ...
A California juror received an apparent spam text. Could it upend a hostage-taking murder verdict?
U.S. District Judge William Hayes took the rare step of calling the jurors back into court nearly two months after they ...